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A comic drama inspired by the plot by Goldoni, Martinelli added "three impure acts" to the title of the drama to refer to the mix of historical periods. The formal value of the text derives from the coexistence of heterogeneous elements intertwined with each other: Italian culture with African culture, the eighteenth century with the […]

In Il dispatrio Meneghello describes his own experience in England, where he migrates in1947 after the defeat of the Partito d’Azione, and where he will live for the most part of his life, teaching at the University of Reading. Through an interplay which intertwines ironical fragments and portraits, the writer relates the different linguistic poles […]

A family of Indo-Mauritian immigrants is dealing with a crucial event: the Father must go to the Municipality to obtain Italian citizenship. But this festive occasion soon turns into the risk, full of tension, of a social examination that puts the entire family on the ropes. In particular, Raoul, the son, is torn between the […]

In altre parole is a “linguistic autobiography”: the story of the encounter, the clash and thelove for Italian language from a writer like Lahiri, already winner of the Pulizer Prize for herEnglish language novels. Through a disemboweled language, cut to the bone, the writerprobes his own complex identity, forged in the “triangulation” between her Bengali […]

Lakhous hybrids the crime novel and the Italian-style comedy to stage the stereotypes and theracism in contemporary Italy. Amedeo, an Algerian immigrated in Rome and integrated in thecommunity of Piazza Vittorio, the capital’s multicultural center, is accused of murder. Thepolyphonic narration wants to depict the transculturality of contemporary Italy and of culturalidentities. The novel is […]

The Satanic Verses has been one of the major editorial cases of the Twentieth century, mainlybecause of the fatwa held by the then Iran ayatollah’s Khomeini, which has forced the author to live under police protection until 2012. This has also vitiated the book’s reception: The Satanic Verses has been read as a Quran’s parody. […]